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diff --git a/src/My_Favorite_Open_Source_Projects.ascii b/src/My_Favorite_Open_Source_Projects.ascii deleted file mode 100644 index e900965..0000000 --- a/src/My_Favorite_Open_Source_Projects.ascii +++ /dev/null @@ -1,104 +0,0 @@ -My Favorite Open Source Projects -================= -:author: Aaron Ball -:email: nullspoon@iohq.net - - -== {doctype} - -I really enjoy open source software. It is somewhat lost on me why most -enterprises are so heavily dependant on proprietary software when the open -source equivelants are better and/or more widely used (Apache/nginx, Linux, -bash, git, etc.), or the project the software was purchased for certainly -doesn't merit the cost or need the support (eg: an Oracle instance for a four -column single table test database, really?). - -All that goes to say though that I really like open source software. I try my -best almost to use it simply on principle, overlooking the shortcomings of some -of the projects just because the code is open and available. With that, here -are some of my favorite projects right now (not necessarily in order or -awesomeness) - - -[[server-software]] -== Server Software - -1. **http://www.linux.com[Linux]**: I'm a fan of - http://www.debian.org/[Debian] (yeah yeah yeah, I don't want to hear - about the political war going on around this one). - -2. **http://archlinux.org[Arch Linux]**: Severed limb style bleeding edge - Linux distribution. Requires a medium to high level of Linux experience to - even get it installed unless you're looking for a really great Saturday - afternoon project (because what IT guy wakes up before 11:00 on a Saturday - anyways). - -3. **http://git-scm.com[Git]**: Code Versioning System. Not easy for mere - mortals at first, as someone once said. It sure is amazingly powerful. - -4. **http://www.mediawiki.org[Mediawiki]**: Standard wiki but it's really - great for blogging, team documentation, project documentation tracking, etc. - https://wikipedia.org[Wikipedia] runs on this. - -5. **http://www.php.net/[PHP]**: Server side script language. Fantastic for - building websites. Also really amazing replacement for Perl for server side - scripting in my opinion. Supports object oriented programming and is under - constant development. I really can't say enough good things about this - project. - -6. **https://mariadb.org[MariaDB]**: Forked from the MySql project by its - founder, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Widenius[Monty Widenius] when - the open source grimm reaper...er...Oracle/Sun acquired it in 2008 (no, I'm - not opinionated at all). - -7. **http://httpd.apache.org[Apache]/http://nginx.org[Nginx]**: Two really - solid web servers that currently occupy the top two slots on the most widely - used web servers in the world (yay for open source!) - -8. **http://www.ejabberd.im[ejabberd]**: Pretty popular XMPP server software - with a good developement speed. Built with erlang. - - -[[desktop-software]] -== Desktop Software - -1. **http://archlinux.org[Arch Linux]**: Hey look! I used this one twice! ... - Severed limb style bleeding edge Linux distribution. Requires a medium to - high level of Linux experience to even get it installed unless you're - looking for a really great Saturday afternoon project (because what IT guy - wakes up before 11:00 on a Saturday anyways). - -2. **http://www.xfce.org/[XFCE]**: Desktop interface for Linux. - -3. **http://www.pidgin.im[Pidgin]**: Instant messaging - -4. **http://www.libreoffice.org[Libre Office]**: Document authoring (MS Word, - Excel, PowerPoint, etc) - -5. **http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils[The GNU Core Utils]**: chmod, - chown, ls, cut, tail, wc, su, w, etc. Full list of commands provided can be - found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Core_Utilities[here]. Basically, if - you use Linux command line ever, these are the majority of the tools you use - most frequently. Despite all the politics surrounding Mr. Stallman and his - amazing beard, the GNU project has done a great job with the core utils, bin - utils, diff utils, file utils, and - http://www.gnu.org/software/#allgnupkgs[everything else] they've done. - -6. **http://www.blender.org[Blender]**: 3D modeling (not for the faint of - heart) - -7. **http://inkscape.org[Inkscape]**: Vector imaging. Good replacement for - Adobe Illustrator - -8. **http://www.keepassx.org[KeePassx]**: Encrypted password database for - Linux. Windows equivelant is http://keepass.info/[KeePass]. - -9. **http://www.gimp.org[Gimp]**: Great replacement for Photoshop, especially - given that most people purchase Photoshop [Elements] and use it to crop and - autocolor images. I can't speak highly enough of this software. It may take - a bit to learn, but it is tremendously powerful. - http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninepan/galleries/72157626688146138/[Here] is a - great list of images that people have made using Gimp. - - -// vim: set syntax=asciidoc: |